At last night’s Konami Gamers Day event, next to new console games in the Metal Gear and Silent Hill franchises, there was just one iOS announcement: Dragon Collection, a freemium card-collecting game that’s huge in Japan, will be coming to the App Store this Fall. While it doesn’t have the name recognition in the U.S. as Konami’s other big games, Dragon Collection does have 6.5 million registered users in Japan, so we thought it was worth trying.

Dragon Collection starts off with you learning the basics of monster-training from a friendly fairy who guides you through the tutorial. You can explore the world by questing, which basically just involves tapping the “start quest” button. This will zoom in slightly on an image of the landscape, giving you only the slightest impression of progressing through the world.

In other words, immersion is not this game’s top priority. Questing takes a few seconds, and zero skill, so the main effect is one of pulling the lever on a slot machine. You’ll randomly receive new monsters and loot, and drain your energy bar with each move. Energy replenishes at the rate of one unit every three minutes, but if you level up, you’ll instantly refill your bar.

The other main portion of the game is card-battling. You can challenge other players to duels, which lets you arrange your deck into a pyramid-shaped army. To strengthen your cards, you’ll have to fuse them together in a special menu and pay a bit of in-game currency. Currency is earned by questing, so you’ll bounce back and forth between advancing the quests and leveling up your favorite cards.

Some of the card graphics are cute, as are the machines that let you fuse together cards. But we were disappointed by the questing– there’s really nothing to look at, and it serves only to let you acquire more loot. Some of the dialogue is cheerful and fun, though, so as a text-based adventure with a bit of visual flair, Dragon Collection seems decent.

Dragon Collection is Konami’s biggest push yet into the mobile-social realm, but with all their great gaming franchises, we still feel they’re not taking full advantage of the iOS platform. Where are the Metal Gear, Castlevania, or Silent Hill games for iPhone and iPad? Even ports of Playstation classics would be welcomed by fans. Dragon Collection is a highly casual experience, which means it has the potential to find a wide audience, but we’re not sure hardcore gamers will be interested.

The simple-looking yet hyper-challenging platformer Mr Jump has rocketed up the charts on the App Store, with 6 million downloads and counting. It’s a free game, with occasional ads and a few in-app purchase options. Touch Arcade spoke with the three-person team behind the app about their success, their inspiration, and where they’ll go from here.

“Most of our apps are puzzle games,” says Thomas. “With Mr Jump we wanted to show that we were capable of doing something different: more action oriented and ‘less simple’ graphically. But even if Mr Jump is a success it doesn’t mean we will stop making small and passionate puzzle games in the future. So our next game might be a puzzle game.”

Do you like auto-running platformers? Do you like Ancient Egyptian art? If so, you’ll want to check out this cool-looking game. It kind of looks like the recent PlayStation 4 game Apotheon, but Egyptian rather than Greek, and auto-running rather than directly controlled. You can download it here for $1.99.

If you have dreams of going to space (or at least sending others into space) you’ll want to check out this game, just ported over from PC. In it, you can choose to play as the director of one of three space programs, and your goal is to send stuff into space. From Touch Arcade’s 4 out of 5 star review:

Even though the game doesn’t offer the excitement of the space race to the degree I was hoping for, SPM is quite an enjoyable management game, especially for those with even a passing interest in space exploration. In addition to its replay value because of the variety of game modes, SPM also offers an abundance of information about the period’s space programs and hardware in its aptly-named Buzz-opedia. If you enjoy relatively deep management games and have even a passing interest in science and space, then this is definitely a game you should check out.

In this abstract game of organisms, microbes, and cells, you’re trying to avoid viruses and mines to make your way to the exit. The only problem is that the controls might not be up to snuff. Read Pocket Gamer’s review, which gave it a 6 out of 10.

What doesn’t work quite so well is the game’s awkward control system, with a drag-to-move system that never feels quite precise or consistent enough for the increasingly delicate maneuvers you need to make. That attack move is a counter-intuitive pain to pull off too.

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Do you like auto-running platformers? Do you like Ancient Egyptian art? If so, you’ll want to check out this cool-looking game. It kind of looks like the recent PlayStation 4 game Apotheon, but Egyptian rather than Greek, and auto-running rather than directly controlled. You can download it here for $1.99.

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AppSpy’s review of Kiloo’s hack-and-slash adventure pegs it as a more casual take on the Infinity Blade franchise. There’s fewer things to collect, less ways to gear up, and you’ll ultimately hit the inevitable grind-or-pay wall that accompanies many free-to-play titles, but you’ll have a good time for an hour or so.

Turn-based strategy game Warhammer: Arcane Magic is coming to iOS at a yet-undisclosed date. That means some good old-fashioned medieval monster beat-downs.

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